"Well, it's not exactly Bakura," Yugi murmured, still being pinned to the wall by Amber's arm.
"It's the spirit of the Millennium Ring! That's worse!" Joey exclaimed as Bakura chuckled.
"That is correct," Bakura said, his grin evil.
The Spirit of the Ring? Mina thought in shock, staring at the twisted young man. But... moments ago he was a sweet boy that kept me from falling over. Is he that same guy?
{He's not,} Amber told Mina, glancing at the blonde. {The kind, caring Bakura is being possessed by that fiend.} The idea made Mina shudder.
"T-that's the Millennium Ring?" Rini asked, her voice shaking. Her eyes fixed onto the pendant hanging from a cord around his neck."W-what is it?"
"That necklace he's wearing is an item of shadow magic," Tea clarified. Cloe quivered, burying her face into Tea's short hair.
"How'd you fire that arrow?" Amber demanded of the thief spirit, reflecting the anger she and Sariah both shared.
Bakura laughed. "I discovered the few traps set up further down the hall. With the aid of the shadows, I set one off."
"Ha, if shadows are your power, we'll take you down!" Raye exclaimed.
"Yeah, you're no match for us!" Serena chimed.
"We'll whup you into the next life!" Lita added, grinning wryly.
Joey was aghast. "Woah, hold on! You guys don't know what you're up against!" he exclaimed, waving his hands about.
Bakura chuckled again. "I'm not interested in you Sailor nothings anyways!"
"Sailor..." Mokuba murmured, the word tugging at his brain.
Bakura flung his arm out, pointing at Yugi and Amber while shouting, "I challenge the Pharaoh and his Queen to a duel!"
Removing her arm, Amber stood, boring her gaze into Bakura's face. "Fine then!" she yelled, yanking out a Duel Disk from her backpack. She thrust it onto her left arm, clicking the brace in place. The bracelet glowed on her wrist; closing her eyes, she allowed Sariah to take over.
When she opened her eyes again, Sariah's serious dark brown eyes glared at the maniacal spirit of the Ring. "If a duel with me is what you wish, then that is what you get!" Sariah exclaimed. Her voice was slightly deeper and more mature than Amber's. Next to her, Yugi pulled out his own Duel Disk and snapped it in place on his arm.
Raye spun, startled. "That's not Amber," she muttered, glaring at the girl.
"She is acting differently," Mina affirmed, scrutinizing Sariah.
Grinning wickedly, Bakura held up his arm, the light glinting off the black details on his alternate Duel Disk. "This will be interesting," he said. "However, there isn't enough room in here to duel." He was right, Sariah and Yugi could tell; the hall was rather narrow, about half the size of a duel area or less. "Further back here is an area large enough." He beckoned with one hand, stepping backwards towards the darkness.
"Psh, no way are we going to follow you!" Lita said, glaring.
"Yeah, we can't trust you!" Joey added, fists clenched.
"Don't speak too soon," Sariah said calmly to both of them as they looked at her. She snapped her fingers, and the previously unlit torches on the walls sparked into healthy flames. Sure enough, just beyond where they stood, the walls of the hall ended, and a giant doorway blocked their path.
Mokuba, Rini, and Rebecca all stared at Sariah. "Woah, how'd you do that, Amber?" Mokuba asked.
Sariah smirked knowingly, which sent tremors up Rini's spine. That's not a look Amber would give... she thought worriedly.
{Ok, that was cool, but be careful,} Amber chastised, appearing invisibly to Sariah. {"You're scaring my friends,"} she added, furrowing her eyebrows.
Sariah nodded faintly, looking at her host. I'll keep that in mind. However, this is my tomb, so of course I can affect it, and I will when needed.
At the top of the door was a golden Eye of Udjat, the same symbol present on the Millennium Puzzle and Bracelet. A line splitting it in two ran to the ground, indicating that there were actually two doors.
"How do we get inside?" Yugi asked, scratching his forehead.
Just then, the Eye of Udjat appeared on the back of Sariah's hand. Gasping, she looked down at it as the same symbol began glowing on her forehead as well.
"Woah! Holy creepy eye!" Serena exclaimed, clinging to Darien's arm.
As gradual as a changing minute hand on a clock, Sariah raised her left arm up in front of her. The eye glowed both on her palm and on the back of her hand. She stared at the door and walked toward it, taking her time in doing so. As if in a trance, her friends simply watched on, confused and awed (well, everyone except the snide Seto Kaiba). It wasn't long before Sariah pressed her hand against the doors. Light burst from her fingertips and from the widening gap between the doors.
Groaning like old men, the stone doors screeched against the stone floor, revealing a large room. It, too, contained walls filled with pictures and hieroglyphics. Torches jutted out at intervals along the walls, and at the wall furthest from the room was a sort of table, like an altar meant to hold sacred items.
Hesitant at first, eventually the group entered the room, staring about them in awe. "This is... incredible..." Darien murmured. However, he glanced at Sariah, thinking, Something's not right with Amber. It's as if... she's a different person. What was it that wack job said about a Pharaoh and Queen? He seemed to be talking to Yugi and Amber.
Now that everyone was in the room, Bakura held up his arm that held his Duel Disk. "This should be an easy task defeating you two, Pharaoh, Sariah," he seething, a twisted gleam in his eyes.
"You wish!" Yugi glared at Bakura, grasping the chain of the Millennium Puzzle.
"Hold up!" a female voice shouted. The voice had a masculine touch to it.
Everyone stared up at the ceiling where the voice had come from. A hole had appeared, and four girls dropped from it to the floor, landing gracefully from their circus training.
"The Amazoness Quartet!" Serena yelped as the girls stood. Darien growled.
"Amazoness Quartet?" Tristan wondered to himself, looking at the girls. Each girl's hair and clothing were one main color. One girl was red, another was pink, another was light blue, and the last one, the one that had spoken, was green. Each of them carried a ball in their hands that matched their main color, except the pink girl whose ball was yellow.
"We've gotta take their dream mirrors first!" the green-haired girl barked at Bakura.
Bakura glared at the scantily-clad girls. "I told you, JunJun, after the duel you're free to get their mirrors!" he seethed at them.
"Not if we can help it!" Mina yelled.
Lita cracked her knuckles. "You aren't touching anyone's mirrors today, you creeps! HIYAAA!" She charged at the Amazoness Quartet, fists brandished.
"Lita! No!" Sariah and Rini yelled.
"We need to transform!" Mina shouted after the tomboy, but to no avail.
"Ha ha! Try this, punk!" the red girl shouted, throwing her red ball out in front of her. "Sticky ball!" Instantaneously, Lita was covered in a red goop and frozen in her tracks.
"Agf!" Lita tried to shout, only the goop started to get into her mouth.
"LITA!" Joey shouted, running towards her.
The blue one giggled, readying a pool stick in her hands. "No way, boy! You're going to play with ParaPara!" She fired off her blue ball with the pool stick. It bounced off several walls in the room before smashing into Joey's back. Joey screamed as something appeared out of him, glowing and spinning rapidly. As he fell to the ground, the object stopped spinning, revealing itself to be his Dream Mirror. "Ha ha! See that, CeleCele? I got him!" ParaPara squealed to the pink-haired girl.
"No! Joey!" Serenity shouted, running to her brother. She gasped as she saw a deep impression of the ball left in Joey's back.
"Stupid ParaPara, that boy doesn't have the Golden Dream Mirror!" CeleCele scolded upon seeing the plain pink border on the mirror that all normal Dream Mirrors had.
The goop disappeared from off Lita. "Joey!" she exclaimed. She and Serenity knelt by the unconscious Joey.
"They got his Mirror!" Amy exclaimed worriedly.
"Amy, what the blazes is going on?" Mr. Mizuno demanded.
"Pelting Ball!" the pink-haired girl shouted, her yellow ball shattering into several smaller balls. The marble-sized spheres pelted the untransformed Scouts, along with Mr. Mizuno, Tristan, Tea, Mokuba and Kaiba. Except Kaiba, they all screamed.
"Hey, that hurt!" Mokuba shouted at the Quartet angrily.
The red girl now had her ball back safely in her hand. "Not as much as this will, kid!" A pool stick in her own hand, she fired it towards Mokuba, shouting, "Time for some dream pool!" Shouting, Mokuba ducked as the ball narrowly missed him.
"I'll join you for that, BesuBesu!" JunJun sneered. "I'll aim at our target!" The ball at the end of her pool stick aimed right at Yugi.
Yugi froze, uncertain of what to do, as his grandpa shouted, "Get out of the way!"
Bakura smirked. "Fine, I'll let you girls work," he murmured, thrusting a card into the air. "I activate - Chain Energy!"
"Whawhahwa? What's this?" Serena yelped as everyone in the room had their arms tied to their sides by greyish ropes of energy. Even the three cats were tied up in similar ropes, meowing as they tried to escape.
Sariah growled, struggling to free her arms. "That fiend activated a Duel Monsters card – for real!"
"What? But how?" Professor Hawkins asked, shocked.
Sneering, Bakura told the Quartet, "Now deal with the Pharaoh!"
"You got it, sweet cheeks," the pink-haired girl, CeleCele, replied with a wink. "Alright, girls!" All four girls aimed the colored spheres right at Yugi. Panicking, Yugi tried to run, but with his arms pinned to his sides, he tripped over his own feet instead.
"Green in the back pocket!" JunJun shouted, firing off her ball.
ParaPara giggled, then shouted, "Blue in the back pocket!"
"Red in the back pocket!" came from an eager BesuBesu.
"Yellow dream ball in the back pocket!" CeleCele exclaimed. All four nearly collided with Yugi but started bouncing off the walls. One forced itself into Tea's back, one smashed into Tristan, another smashed into Rebecca's back, and the last one, finally, slammed itself into Yugi's back. All four of them screamed as their Dream Mirrors appeared in front of them. As Tea fell, Cloe dropped from her arms squealing, but luckily Amberlee caught the blonde doll.
"Oh, man, none of these guys have the Golden Dream Mirror!" JunJun complained. Bakura grunted at the comment as he put away his Chain Energy card. Its spell was deactivated, freeing everyone from the gray ropes.
"Rebecca!" Professor Hawkins exclaimed, kneeling by his granddaughter's body. Raye and Mina rushed to Tea's unconscious form.
ParaPara blinked, staring down at Yugi. "Uh, that boy has two Dream Mirrors," she said blankly, pointing at him. The Scouts in the room instantly stared at Yugi.
"WHAT?" Her three sisters leaned over Yugi. Sure enough, floating above the motionless Yugi were two mirrors – one with the normal pink frame and one with an Eye of Udjat at the top of its golden frame.
"Isn't that the Golden Dream Mirror?" BesuBesu asked, poking the eye on the strange second mirror.
"No, there's something wrong with it," CeleCele insisted, a hand on her chin.
Serena looked at Sariah worriedly. "Amber, how can a person have two Mirrors?" she asked, clenching her hands.
"Serena, that's not-" Raye began, only to stop herself when Sariah gave her a stern stare.
Sariah looked at Serena out of the side of her eyes. "Think about it – one person has one Mirror. Therefore, if one body has two mirrors..." She trailed off, turning her gaze back to the Quartet.
Suddenly, the second mirror began to glow, evaporating like mist out of sight. The Quartet stared, their eyes bulging from their heads. The Millennium Puzzle also glowed – and the boy opened his eyes.
The Quartet screamed and hugged each other as Yami pushed himself up to a sitting position. "What – you're not supposed to do that!" JunJun yelled in fright.
Sariah smiled gratefully. There's my Pharaoh. Took him a while, though.
{Yeah, he could've shown up sooner.} Amber humphed, crossing her translucent arms across her chest.
Smirking, Yami stood up. "Now, if you don't mind," he said to the Quartet, grasping Yugi's Dream Mirror, "I'll be taking this back." He pushed it back into his chest; it disappeared, scaring the girls further.
"You aren't supposed to do that, either!" BesuBesu screeched, trying to sound angry instead of like a frightened child.
"All of their mirrors have returned to them!" CeleCele said, glancing over the other victims now starting to sit up.
Waterfalls of tears pouring from her eyes, ParaPara screamed, "He's scary! ParaPara's scared!"
"Well, then, if the Pharaoh scares you so much, let me deal with him!" Bakura growled at the Quartet. "I told you to be patient until after the duel!" He pulled out a glass marble-sized orb from his pocket. An unseen dark aura surrounded the marble.
"Bakura!" Yami bellowed, simultaneously sending the Quartet into more bouts of weepy fright and getting Bakura's attention. "Why is it that you wish to duel me and Sariah?"
"Sariah?" the Scouts asked together, watching Sariah walk towards Yami.
Bakura replied with a grin, "There are secrets in this room, secrets I can only unlock once I have defeated you and taken the Millennium Items you both possess. Therefore, whoever wins the duel will win any and all Items the loser has."
"What? Why such conditions over a card game?" Raye demanded.
"Isn't that a bit irrational?" Amy asked.
Joey stared at the girls, bewildered as as he leaned against Lita and Serenity. "That's how we always do things here," he explained.
"There's a lot of ancient magic stuff involved with Duel Monsters," Tristan added.
"Ancient magic?" Luna asked. She and Serena looked at each other, both immediately thinking about the moments where the Puzzle and Serena's compact reacted to each other.
Sariah looked at the Pharaoh standing beside her. "What he asks is a very risky challenge," she commented. Her hand coiled around the Bracelet on her wrist.
"I know," Yami replied, meeting her eyes. "But we must do this."
"Agreed," Sariah said with a nod.
Both with knowing smiles, Yami and Sariah both lifted their Duel Disk-bearing arms, meeting Yami's gaze evenly. "We accept your challenge," Yami said, confidence shining through his violet eyes.
"We'll be able to defeat you at a two-on-one duel with ease," Sariah added.
"Oh, I won't be dueling alone," Bakura assured them wickedly, holding up the marble.
Sariah chuckled. "Who'll be your partner, then? One of those silly girls?" She pointed at the Quartet huddled together. CeleCele snuck a glare at the Queen.
Bakura roared with laughter. "Oh, no, they know nothing of Duel Monsters. I have another ally in mind." As Sariah and Yami gave the thief spirit confused looks, Bakura continued, "She's on her way right now." He pocketed the marble and waved his arm out to his side.
Dark tendrils of magic swirled around the spot his fingers pointed at. Merging together, they formed an oval portal. A black boot stepped through the portal, followed by another. The rest of the figure followed, a woman dressed in a black uniform much like a Japanese boy's school uniform at Crossroads Junior High. On her left arm was a Duel Disk in dark colors like Bakura's.
Raye gasped. "Th-the dark energy coming from her... it's familiar!"
"How?" Mina asked.
Raye clenched her hand, glaring at the portal. "It feels like the Negaverse!" That got the Scouts' attention, even Rini's.
Standing in front of the disappearing portal, the woman looked up, a knowing sneer on her thin lips. She had auburn hair, freckles, and light brown eyes – just like Amber.
Basically, she looked like a twenty-something year old version of Amber.
"Nyeh! It's an evil Amber!" Joey shouted, jumping back. The Domino teens gasped, the adults looked just as shocked, and the Scouts glared at the woman.
Enraged, Amber immediately took control of her body again. "Amberite," she hissed, staring at her lifelong enemy.
MU: Man, writing for the Amazoness Quartet was HARD! Hopefully I portrayed them right; I'm not as familiar with them as I am with the other Sailor Moon bad guys.
Yugi: SailorMoonRocks1433 said you did a good job with that part.
MU: She did, but if any of you readers out there see some inaccuracies, let me know! Also, coming up - who on Earth is this new enemy? (Yes, she's an OC and will be explained)